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China · Founded 1911

Tsinghua University

China's top founder factory · Beijing

Tsinghua alumni anchor the Chinese tech ecosystem — Meituan, Pinduoduo, ByteDance, and a generation of AI and EV founders. · A public taster of the full Dealroom founder-factory dataset — request a demo for live deal flow, founder pedigrees, and the complete alumni-startup graph.

$1.7T+37%
Combined EV of alumni-founded startups
200
Alumni unicorns
+12 new in 2025
785
Alumni-founded companies
629 alumni founders

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Startup funnel

Tsinghua University's alumni power-law funnel

See how Tsinghua University's 785 alumni-founded companies narrow through funding rounds to unicorn, decacorn and titan outcomes. Early-stage round counts are blurred — the full per-round funnel is on the Dealroom platform.

Tsinghua University alumni funnel

All sectors · companies founded by Tsinghua University alumni

785 Alumni-Founded Companies 629 alumni founders
69 Annual Startups FoundedAll new ventures
76 Annual Startups FundedReceived investment get funded 110.1%
144 Pre-Seed Startups$100K - $1M
231 Seed Startups$1M - $4M Pre-Seed to Seed 160.4%
190 Series A Startups$4M - $15M Seed to Series A 82.3%
104 Series B Breakouts$15M - $40M A to Series B 54.7%
58 Series C Breakouts$40M - $100M B to Series C 55.8%
35 Mega Scaleups$100M - $250M reach Mega 4.5%
23 Mega+ Scaleups$250M+ reach Mega+ 2.9%
200 Unicorns$1B-10B valuation reach unicorn 25.5%
24 Decacorns$10B-100B valuation reach decacorn 3.1%
4 Titans$100B+ valuation reach titan 0.51%

Where alumni build

Tsinghua University alumni — sector & city breakdown

Top sectors and headquarter cities for unicorns founded by Tsinghua University alumni.

By city
1 Beijing, CN 110
2 Shanghai, CN 36
3 Shenzhen, CN 24
4 Hangzhou, CN 8

Featured alumni companies

Headliners founded by Tsinghua University alumni

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What we don't show on this page (yet)

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Founder origins
Where Tsinghua University founders come from before applying
Country of birth
Per-capita pipeline
Origin companies
Pre-college signals
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AI talent
Top employers of Tsinghua University alumni in AI
Core AI roles
Frontier AI roles
Net-new hires
Senior + lead engineers
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Deal flow
Live alumni-founded deal flow
New rounds last 30 days
Stage breakdown
Active alumni investors
Round-size trends
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Network effects
Tsinghua University alumni → alumni hires & spinouts
Alumni-founder mafia map
Spinout cascade chart
Cohort-by-cohort EV
Co-founder pairings
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Market sentiment

What the market is saying about Tsinghua University

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Tsinghua University on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.

Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…

Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour

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